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entered a third day of partial lockdown as authorities hunt for suspects in the Paris terrorist attack as well as an unspecified planned attack, while the United Kingdom will join France in intensifying air strikes against ISIS.

Migrants in Greece called for a hunger strike and blocked cross-border rail traffic as they demanded to be allowed passage to Western Europe.

Chris Christie is not willing to challenge the claim by Donald Trump that he saw Arabs in New Jersey celebrating 9/11 on television.

Sixteen people were injured in New Orleans after two groups at a crowded park started shooting at each other.

The inspector general for NASA says the space agency is not ready to send astronauts into deep space.

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In studios across the nation, as many as 20 million Americans practice yoga every day. Few worry that their downward dogs or warrior poses disrespect other cultures.

But yoga comes from India, once a British colony. And now, at one Canadian university, a yoga class designed to include disabled students has been canceled after concerns the practice was taken from a culture that “experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy,” according to the group that once sponsored it.

Actually, not sure where that theory came from but Durum based pasta is all Italian. People confused the egg noodle with pasta. The Chinese weren’t making that. There’s no such thing as Chinese pasta as the Italians have come to produce.

“And so the Great War of Whiskey Appropriation began. Eventually, after much blood and treasure was spent, the Great Tribe of Bourbon in the Land of Kentucky triumphed over the Lesser Tribes of Irish, Scotts, and French having been better armed and more vicious in nature, although their products was judged inferior.”

I’m sure they have a double-standard justification ready, something along the lines that since western media is full of kultural appropriashunz that it’s ok. Plus, people should consume locally produced media anyway so as not to be contaminated by our evil culture.

Yeah, they may have a double-standard justification ready, but since they’re not allowed to culturally appropriate English anymore we’ll never know about it–especially when they stop culturally appropriating the internet.

Yes, we’re supposed to lock ourselves into culture boxes and only enjoy those products produced by our direct ancestors. Lucky are the mongrel breeds of mixed heritage. Soon everyone will be required to get DNA testing providing proof of ancestry prior to ordering Thai food, practicing yoga or a martial arts, listening to hip-hop, playing hockey or skiing.

Stop othering people by installing bamboo wood floors in your family room. You shits.

Not long ago a friend of mine told me he had been in touch with someone we both went to college with. He said her Facebook page is filled with this SJW bullshit. I was not surprised. The girl was an emotional basket case back when I knew her.

She worshipped Natalie Merchant and would never shut up about how wonderful and beautiful Natalie was. I mean it was a sickening display of the most sycophantic behavior you can imagine. When she would drink she would break down in tears and go on and on and on….and then eventually get angry about how unfair it was that she was not as beautiful and talented as Merchant.

I think she is a pretty typical example of the SJW.

These people are emotionally unbalanced nuts. It is no surprise to see this kind of unhinged behavior from them.

No one “owns” a culture. A culture is nothing more than a set if learned achievements that, unless you’re the one individual person who registered that achievement in the fist place, you have no particular right to do anything other than thank your lucky stars that someone, probably someone much, much, smarter than you, had the decency to grace your life with.

One of the things I love about America is we’re the world’s supreme cultural adapters. Or “appropriators” if you’re an imbecile social justice cadre. We took shit from every culture on the globe, threw it together with every other culture’s shit and turned it into a spanking new bit of awesomeness. We’re the one’s calling someone a schmuck or a putz because he’s too macho while we’re on our way to get some dim sum, which we really need because we had too much Guinness last night talking to our kids’ kindergarten teachers about old school blues. AND GOD FUCKING BLESS US FOR THAT!

The cultural appropriation complaining is always idiotic, but applied to Indian things, it seems especially bullshitty. Yes, it was a British colony and there was definitely some bad stuff that went with that. But it’s a huge country and a major world player which appears to have maintained its distinctive cultures quite well through colonialism and economic globalization. Not to mention that India was full of empires and kingdoms conquering and colonizing each other well before the British showed up.

Yes, it was a British colony and there was definitely some bad stuff that went with that.

While I can’t rule out entirely the idea that the Brits actually made it worse for the bulk of the Indian population, it’s basically my default assumption that most Indians probably had it pretty bad under both their pre-Brit rulers, and the Brits.

Between the start of Company rule and the completed conquest of the subcontinent, there was a consistant flow of people to British run regions in India because life was better there. Not Utopian better, but good enough a differential to cause migration.

Probably the biggest negative effect the Brits had on the India of today was breaking up the empire when socialism was all the rage, leaving them with a government that held back their economic development for decades.

Imagine the gnashing of teeth from the left if Bush had rounded up and interrogated every umpteenth cousin of the bin Laden family. In literally that same sequence Moore would have castigated the feds for their insensitivity and paranoia.

Now entering the fray, vagina emojis! Or if you prefer, “vagmojis.” It’s a word that just rolls right off the tongue (so to speak). Technically, the part of the body depicted in these cute little guys is the vulva, but it seems that most of the world thinks the vagina is the name for the whole lady parts region.

The artists behind the colorful new anatomical emojis are Katy McCarthy and Jeremy Yingling, who created them for Flirtmoji, a sex- and body-positive, self-described “group of hornballs” who design emojis that “empower people of all sexualities to communicate their desires, concerns and flirtations.” Isn’t that nice? In other words, they just want to help people to sext better. Sounds like a worthy cause to us.

I don’t know. “United States of America” is called “America”, just like the “United States of Mexico” is usually called Mexico. I’m with Niki on the vagina thing. There’s a lot of interesting parts in the female genital area and it’s a shame to just conflate it all.

In a few months, after Iowa and New Hampshire begin to winnow the field, the GOP nomination race could boil down to an epic final between a candidate with a more pragmatic image, such as Marco Rubio, Carly Fiorina or Jeb Bush, and a more conservative one, such as Ted Cruz, Ben Carson or Donald Trump.

If that happens, the moderate finalist ? like Mitt Romney and John McCain before him or her ? will have a hidden structural advantage: the party’s delegate math and geography.[…]

In reality, the GOP nominating contest will be decided by an intricate, state-by-state slog for the 2,472 delegates at stake between February and June. And thanks to the Republican National Committee’s allocation rules, the votes of “Blue Zone” Republicans ? the more moderate GOP primary voters who live in Democratic-leaning states and congressional districts ? could weigh more than those of more conservative voters who live in deeply red zones.

I’ve never taken the time to learn exactly how the delegate allocation process takes place. It’s even dumber than I imagined.

It’s going to be Rubio. The GOPe is obsessed with winning Florida, and despite Rubio not being able to balance his own checkbook, his stance on immigration and that he looks good on TV is going to get him the lion’s share of establishment money and air time. Add Jeb!’s voters to Rubio’s and he’s right there with Carson and Trump.

A firefighter who was allowed to graduate the Fire Academy despite failing physical tests has already gone out on medical leave ? just 10 days into the job, The Post has learned.

Probationary firefighter Choeurlyne Doirin-Holder injured herself Monday while conducting a routine check of equipment at Queens’ Engine 308 in South Richmond Hill. Getting off the truck, Doirin-Holder missed a step and landed on her left foot, suffering a fracture, sources said.

It was her second shift after a transfer from Engine 301. In training for a hazmat assignment, officers found her struggling to perform the required tasks.

So, first thought is that injury doesn’t sound like the kind caused by lack of physical fitness. Second thought is that it was probably indirectly caused. If she couldn’t keep up she was probably getting exhausted and making more mistakes than normal. Also, lack of muscle around joints can make them easier to break or fracture (though the strain of creating the muscle can also fracture or break).

Really, they should have known better than to let her join without making the physical.

“We just don’t understand, Doctor! Are women equal to men or not?” “Well, we want them to be equal…but we can’t tell them they aren’t, and we can’t hold them to male standards…” “Doctor, I have this disabled man here who wants to be a firefighter…” “Gott in Himmel! Get that man a fire suit!”

Its says she recently transfered to E301. The reason for her transfer was that she didnt like the bathroom in the first firehouse she was sent to. She failed the academy a few times and was given a desk job while she waited for the next one to begin. They will make the department equal no matter what.

If she stays in the FD she will probably end up in administration or inspections or some other position that does not require physical labor. First this will take away jobs of older or injured firemen who got those jobs later in their career. The bigger problem is that she will demand promotions which will then put her in charge of fire stations without having the hands on experience needed to command them.

Hiring her was not how hiring was done in the fire service, but that did not stop her from getting hired. I bet she is already working on demands for promotion due to the fact she says she was discriminated against.

Maybe… It will be fun to watch the Union trying to sort out who to support as other firefighters object to her if she gets promotional favoritism. I do think there will be a practical difference between giving her favoritism over the general public to get her into the department vs. giving her favoritism over establish firefighters in the promotion process. The lesson to be learned for the residents of NY, vote out any politician implicated in the bullshit waste of money and perversion of “rights”.

She was also one of 240 priority hires who because she failed to pass a test that was deemed “racist” got hired at 40 years old, given 10 years backpay and pension payments and has seniority over anyone hired in the past 10 years.

Guy in my battalion is from Panama. Hired about 7 years ago, passed everything legit—but sued the city for backpay, saying he would have gotten a higher score and been hired sooner, but no interpreter was given to him when he took the test. He won.

No one was injured in the robbery, which occurred on a residential street near Third Avenue and Broadway Road.

At first glance, it appeared the robber had left a bloody scene, according to Phoenix police. The red substance pooling on the asphalt turned out to be cherry syrup that spilled from a bottle struck by one of the robber’s bullets, an officer said.

The Reuters page with the results of Greek voting also showed a video of a Chicago cop murdering (16 shots) an unarmed brown guy walking away from him. He IS going to maybe face charges and perhaps get off scot-free, a slap on the wrists or (get this!) 20 years hard time. Has Reason commented on Trump leading God’s Own Party away from feds shooting teenagers over weed and confiscating homes yet? Hillary and the other looters except Rand still want our kids arrested, raped or shot AFAIK.

The co-founder of a Singapore church and five other leaders were sentenced to jail terms of up to eight years on Friday, for fraudulently diverting millions of dollars to support his wife’s pop singing career.

The mix of faith and fraud has fascinated tightly-regulated Singapore, where such cases are rare in an affluent city-state with little tolerance for corruption.

Senior pastor Kong Hee heads City Harvest Church, one of a growing number of Singapore’s megachurches preaching a “prosperity gospel” that blends spiritual and material aspirations.

Six church officials were convicted last month of diverting nearly S$51 million ($36 million) in funds to advance the career of Kong’s wife, Ho Yeow Sun.

Man called ‘Phuc Dat Bich’ whose Facebook account was blocked three times believes his plight has helped to highlight how ‘certain names populate different cultures’

A 23-year-old Melbourne man has thanked his supporters on Facebook ‘Phuc Dat Bich’ shared his passport on social media to prove his real name The original post had gone viral with 125,000 likes and 67,000 shares Commenters have supported Phuc and said he should embrace his name

Rich, it took place in 2001. Can you check the Twitter archive in 2001? Can you look back at your Facebook page in 2001? Clearly, actual facts from this era are as irretrievable as if they had taken place in the Dark Ages.

Of all of the ways men try to impress the ladies, from big wallets to big muscles, here is one that has finally been quantified by science. In a woman’s presence, men eat 93% more pizza, according to researchers at Cornell University.

And props to you profs who came up with this study, and secured the funding.

“When one recognizes the overwhelming presence of men in competitive eating contests where the goal is to consume as much as possible in as short a period as possible, then it becomes clear that male eating patterns warrant closer attention through the lens of sexual selection theory,” reads the study’s introduction.

The scientists came to their conclusions after observing the eating habits of 133 adults who were recruited at an all-you-can-eat Italian buffet over a two-week period.

“They found that not only did men eat 93% more pizza (1.44 more slices) when dining with a female than when with another man, but they also ate 86% more salad.

“These findings suggest that men tend to overeat to show off,” said Kevin Kniffin, visiting assistant professor and lead author of the study. “

No, no it doesn’t.

That is ONE possible explanation for why they overate.

There are however others, for example it could be that the presence of women alters their hormone balance making them hungrier, or, it could be that in the presence of another man they are competing by demonstrating their self control to establish dominance but do not feel the need to compete for dominance in the same way with a woman.

The proper reading of this “research” is that it is UTTERLY pointless but the researcher managed to convey a minor point of interest that came out of the “study” into an attention grabbing headline in order to secure future funding.

It’s bad enough having a state hold an election that is racially discriminatory. Now we have a judge willingly to allow it to move forward.

That would be federal district court Judge J. Michael Seabright (a George W. Bush appointee, surprisingly enough). He’s refused to issue an injunction to stop an election in Hawaii to set up a separate government that excludes anyone who doesn’t meet the state’s definition of “Native Hawaiian.”

Seabright’s deplorable decision in Akina v. State of Hawaii is on an emergency appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ? which, unfortunately, doesn’t always seem to believe in following Supreme Court precedent.

Meanwhile, voting has already started in Hawaii. The election is intended to select delegates to a convention, which will draw up “governance documents” for a Native Hawaiian government. Registration to vote was restricted to “Native Hawaiians,” who are defined as only those whose ancestors lived on the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778 ? and even then only to those willing to confirm a statement affirming “the unrelinquished sovereignty of the Native Hawaiian people.” Voting by mail started on November 1 and runs through the end of the month.

If Hawaii wants independence, they should be able to get it, by majority vote. What isn’t acceptable is to set up a racially discriminatory government while still claiming the benefits of US citizenship and receiving large amounts of money from the federal government.

Donald Trump branded a ‘racist’ after retweeting made-up statistics that claim most white people are killed by black people

Donald Trump retweeted figures on murders committed by black people It said 81 per cent of white murder victims were killed by black offenders Tweet also said 16 per cent of white people murdered are killed by whites Official FBI figures show that Trump’s statistics are wildly wrong His ‘source’, the Crime Statistics Bureau – San Francisco, does not exist Tweet originally posted by user with a neo-Nazi logo as their profile picture

Smith says police received video showing Ricks on duty and in uniform while singing “Let the Killing Begin” ? a song referencing the crucifixion of Christ ? with Vital Remains at a Sanford venue Nov. 13.

In a statement Thursday, Smith said the incident “erodes the thin fibers of trust” between police and the community.

B16 DKK, OR16 ASM and CR16 PLE: The rude-sounding new number plates banned by the DVLA for sounding too naughty

Host of new ’16 number plates banned for being too offensive or poor taste OR16 ASM, B16 DKK, BU16 GER, N16 GGA and B16 FAG are all forbidden The DVLA has banned those which are religious, homophobic or plain rude Personalised number plate business worth around ?2.3billion a year in UK

The Department of Health and Human Services attempted to reassure private insurers on Thursday that they’ll be able to recover losses from participating in Obamacare by claiming it was an “obligation” of the U.S. government to bail them out.

At issue is a provision within the law known as the risk corridors program. Under the program, which runs from 2014 through 2016, the federal government is to collect money from health insurers doing better than expected and use those funds to provide a federal backstop to other insurers who incur larger than expected losses from rising medical claims. The idea was to provide training wheels to insurers in the first years of Obamacare’s implementation, and to take away any incentive for insurers to cherry pick only the healthiest customers.

Republicans, fearing that this could turn into an open-ended government bailout in the event of industry-wide losses, included a provision in last year’s spending bill that limited the program, requiring HHS to pay out only from the pool of money collected, rather than supplementing it with other sources of government funding. President Obama signed that bill.

So the Republican correctly predicted how the provision would be abused and explicitly wrote in statements to prevent that abuse. Now the gov is just going to ignore those provisions and if it ever makes it to the supreme court the law will be reinterpreted to allow them to do unlimited bailouts.

If one penny of public money went into research that ultimately resulted in a marketable product, then that product could never have been invented without the aid of democratic socialist government. Duh. That includes fire and the wheel.

Of course history is replete with examples of socialist innovation. Just take a gander at the entrepreneurial prowess of the USSR…oh wait. Maybe China? Or Cuba–they have the very best healthcare in the whole world. Venezuela for sure. They’re using worthless money for toilet paper.

A reservation agent named Angelline declined to honor Mr. Bergwerk’s reservation, saying that it was company policy not to recognize Israeli documents. Stunned, Mr. Bergwerk explained that he had rented from Avis many times, including a car from that very same office on Thursday, November 19 ? only two days earlier.

Mr. Bergwerk asked Angelline to access the profile attached to his Wizard card, which shows that he is an executive at a giant multinational company who has no regulatory issues and has rented from Avis, including at that very branch, many times without incident. She refused. They argued.

If you intend to rent outside your home country, you may also be required to present an International Driver’s Permit. International Driver’s Permits are valid only if presented with the original local license.

IDPs exist mainly to help people with the translation of drivers licenses. Since the Israeli drivers license contains a lot of information only in Hebrew, it makes sense to require an IDP. When my family visits from overseas, they always bring an IDP just for that reason.

I think Avis handled this badly and if they have any sense, they should fire the people responsible for it. But, frankly, the Teva executive also suffers from a great deal of arrogance and sense of entitlement and he comes across as a bit of a jerk, and I have no problem with businesses refusing to serve jerks.

He also made America a global power, winning the fight against isolationism that was led by his former secretary of state, William Jennings Bryan, so that America could enter, and end, World War I. While he failed in the war’s aftermath to fulfill his dream of a new international organization dedicated to the prevention of future wars, Wilson’s vision eventually triumphed thanks to his disciples Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. The United Nations was rooted in Wilsonian principles and proved to be a transformational force for peace and decolonization.

Despite the broad sweep of his presidency, it’s become fashionable to treat Wilson as little more than a petty racist. The Washington Post’s Alexandra Petri (in an opinion piece actually in support of keeping Wilson’s name on buildings) blithely asserts that “Woodrow Wilson was terrible. On this we can agree,” before summarizing his record on race. Dylan Matthews at Vox.com (the so-called “explainer” news outlet) barked that “Woodrow Wilson was extremely racist ? even by the standards of his time” and accused him of defending the Klu Klux Klan.

In a surprising comment, Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier is encouraging ordinary citizens to subdue or even kill active gunmen if they can as the “best option for saving lives before police can get there.”

During an interview Sunday on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” Chief Lanier was asked what should people do if they are in the vicinity of an active shooter like the ones who terrorized Paris on Nov. 13, The Washington Examiner reported.

“Your options are run, hide, or fight,” the D.C. police chief said. “If you’re in a position to try and take the gunman down, to take the gunman out, it’s the best option for saving lives before police can get there.”

The District for decades had outlawed handguns until the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the ban in 2008. Since then, city leaders have enacted restrictive laws that are still being challenged in court by gun owners and pro-gun activists.

For the fourth consecutive month, businessman Donald Trump leads the contest for the Republican presidential nomination, with his candidacy fueled by a powerful anti-Washington mood among GOP voters, according to a new national poll by The Washington Post and ABC News.

After a tumultuous period that has included terrorist attacks in Paris, calls for stepped-up efforts to combat Islamic State militants, a backlash against accepting refugees from Syria, and two Republican debates, the race looks on the surface very much as it did in a Post-ABC survey a month ago.

Trump runs ahead of the large field with 32 percent support among registered Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. Running second is retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 22 percent. Both figures are identical to last month.

Writing in The New York Times in August, Michael and Robert Meeropol called for the “government to formally exonerate Ethel Rosenberg.” The Times tweeted: “Ethel Rosenberg’s sons call on Obama to pardon their mother.”

There is a simple reason why Ethel Rosenberg should not be pardoned: she was guilty. She did in fact conspire with her husband to spy for the Soviet Union both during and after World War II. Proponents of a pardon claim that Ethel’s trial was tainted by perjured testimony, and that the death penalty was grossly unfair?and they are correct on both counts. While these assertions cast doubt on the fairness of the trial, they do not alter the fact that she was guilty.

In order to evaluate the merits of demands to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg it is necessary to understand both that she was convicted based in part on false testimony and that there is strong evidence indicating her guilt.

When the U.S. Labor Department’s Center for Civil Rights wanted to celebrate its accomplishments last week, its managers threw the staff a football-themed tailgate party in the office parking lot.

The invite, distributed across the agency’s official email system, had all the rah-rah of a playoff game. “Celebrate a championship year!” it declared.

Even the regular office dress policy was relaxed. “Show your team spirit and wear your favorite sports or club theme gear and come and enjoy tailgating favorites like dips, chili, chicken wings, nachos and more game-day grub,” the invite said.

There was only stipulation: no Washington Redskins jerseys, paraphernalia or memorabilia.

The libtards will get their PC way eventually. And they won’t stop. IF you are a fan of the Chiefs, Indians, Blackhawks, or Braves, get ready to face their wrath after they have disposed of the Redskins. They will not stop, adn you are a fool if you think they will. They hate freedom and especially free speech and free thought and free expression, and they will ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS have a great reason for wanting to control you. For your own good, of course.

She is amazed that guys LOVE getting an unsolicited beaver shot from a woman on a dating app.

I’d initially hoped the guys would see how invasive it is to receive such intimate photos from a stranger. When I’m excited to get to know a guy, his penis isn’t the first part of him that I want to know. But given that men like to send dick pics, I suppose their enthusiasm for v-pics makes sense

Dixon, 61, spent 22 years in city government as a councilwoman, City Council president and eventually mayor. She was forced to resign in 2010 when she was convicted of embezzling gift cards meant for needy families.

Interviews with some voters polled show that many still consider her an effective administrator whose positives outweigh her negatives.

Dude, you need to check the D, demographics. Baltimore is ~66% black, and skin color is the biggest sell in this city. Doesn’t matter what she did, she’s black, and that makes her better than not-black candidates.

This demonizing a single religious faith is a slippery slope. It feeds something that is at odds with the most noble ambition of this country’s better angels: equality.

The 2011 Pew survey found that among Muslim Americans: “Significant numbers report being looked at with suspicion (28 percent), and being called offensive names (22 percent). And while 21 percent report being singled out by airport security, 13 percent say they have been singled out by other law enforcement. Overall, a 52 percent majority says that government antiterrorism policies single out Muslims in the U.S. for increased surveillance and monitoring.”

We must put a lid on this corrosive language. Simply put, being specifically anti-Muslim is, in a way, anti-American.

Scace was involved in a civil motor vehicle infraction in July “after he had been drinking alcohol and was en route to purchase more,” according to a probable cause statement prepared by Massachusetts State Police Detective Brian Foley.

Details of that incident weren’t included in the court filing, but it was noted that the Dalton Police Department was notified, which caused Scace “considerable angst.”

Later that evening, Scace became “enraged,” and began destroying property inside the home and smashed the woman’s cellphone to prevent her from calling for help, the report said. The woman left the house, but Scace allegedly followed her outside, threw her to the ground, kicked her in the ribs and wrapped his hands around her neck and throttled her hard enough to cause “significant” bruising.

The woman went back inside the house and saw Scace enter the basement and re-emerge holding a black handgun, believed to be his service weapon.

When he was asked what he was going to do with the weapon, Scace allegedly placed the firearm to the side of the woman’s head, touching it with the end of the muzzle.

So what should environmentalists be demanding? Foremost, governments need to fund research and development for low-carbon energy technologies at Apollo-program levels of commitment. Breakthrough innovations are needed in batteries, nuclear energy, liquid biofuels, and carbon capture. The required funding of this ultimate public good is too great a risk with too little a reward for private companies. But it is easily fundable by governments.

…snip…

Today, climate activism shoots off in too many directions: divesting from portfolios, urging asceticism, ending capitalism, demonizing ogres, prophesying doom, changing everything. This scattershot campaign is morally invigorating but distracts people from acknowledging the most inconvenient truth of all: None of this will stop catastrophic climate change. The movement should hit “Pause,” do the math, and work for the combination of policies that can actually solve the problem.

The new research, published this week in Nature, provides hard evidence of a developing gas giant orbiting a young Sunlike star called LkCa 15, located 450 light years away in the constellation Taurus. What’s more, it appears as if at least two other giant b?b?s are also forming around the star, though only one was directly detected.

“No one has successfully and unambiguously detected a forming planet before,” said astronomer Kate Follette, a co-author on the study, in a statement. “There have always been alternate explanations, but in this case we’ve taken a direct picture, and it’s hard to dispute that.”

UP: ‘Increasingly warmer temperatures throughout the world may produce a trend toward dictatorial governments, in the opinion of Dr. Clarence A. Mills, professor of experimental medicine at the University of Cincinnati.

In fact, Dr. Mills believes that the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in German and Benito Mussolini in Italy may be due in part to the gradually warming temperature of the world. People are more docile and easily led in warm weather than in cold, Dr. Mills insists.

Dr. Mills is author of a theory that climate has a marked effect on human growth, stature, sex development and disease resistance.”

Macri promised to reduce the state’s role in the economy and embrace more pro-business policies, as well as shift Argentina’s foreign policy away from close relations with the anti-American governments in Venezuela and Iran and better ties with the USA.

Wait until he finds out that the USA has had an anti-business pro-leftist supporter of Venezuela and the Castros occupying the Whitehouse for the last 7 years. The irony is just derptastic.

The Obumbles will tell Marci that all of the problems with their economy have been caused by global warming and that the leftist “Kirchnerism” just didn’t go far enough left.

Because the hands out subsidies and suppresses the competition you fucking half wit. Big business loves big government. Everyone here knows that. Now ask yourself if Obama is doing anything other than letting his cronies on Wall Street loot the country, why do those cronies love him so much?

Dipshit only makes the most obvious, trolling, libtard arguments and NONE of them in good faith. Why would you even answer him when he knows full fucking well he is trolling. He is just a poor dipshit…

Except by interacting with it, you are only training it to do more of the stuff you want it to stop doing.

It’s an ant harvesting aphid juice. The ant doesn’t care what the aphid wants. It just does the things to the aphid that thanks to natural selection it is programmed to do. In the past when the ant’s ancestors did those same things to ancestral aphids, they got aphid juice. And so this ant repeats those actions.

Similarly, when you write a blistering rebuttal to shriek’s mindlessness, all you are doing is giving it the delicious yet meaningless words it craves, thereby training its neural net to do more of the same.

Why does the business community solidly support Obama if he is anti-business?

“The business community” doesn’t solidly support Obama. Business people who support him are mostly recipients of massive government handouts (banks, law firms, investment houses, insurance companies, health care companies, green energy companies, etc.).

There are also some number of confused techies who were raised and indoctrinated in a big-government, progressive environment, and who haven’t been hurt yet enough by his administration to care. Which way they will go in the future depends on the balance between government handouts to the tech industry and government interference with it.

Industries with strong margins, and growth as far as the eye can see, much of it overseas away from American rules, that can afford tax lawyers, and have outsourced their manufacturing overseas, too, of course they can support Obama.

Its the marginal business where the ACA along might move them to loss that can’t afford Obama.

They’ve been headed that direction for around a decade at the hands of the Labor Party of Dilma. I think the same thing that happened in Argentina is going to happen in Brazil. They’re trying to impeach Dilma. They may not succeed, but it’s very likely that Labor will not win the next election. Brazil nearly elected a pro-business guy who barely lost to Dilma, and that’s almost sure to happen in the next election.

The guy who lost to Dilma is a mixed-economy religious fanatic whose buddies’ helicopters keep turning up in cocaine raids. Do a google image search on: A?cio coca?na… It’s all over the newspapers and magazines.

Brazil has no Libertarian party under a Nixon subsidies law. Senators, congressmen and captains of industry are being arrested, stripped of wealth and jailed for violation of the very income tax and laundering laws they so zealously espoused for others. The US ambassador here is a DEA mole who was kicked out of Bolivia for espionage, inserted in Paraguay where a coup promptly toppled the government, and then injected into Brazil where coup aspirants assembled to oust our presidenta (a communist guerrilla activist during the US-backed Cold War prohibitionist dictatorship). Unfortunately, the commie guerrilla gal is, by a simple process of comparison and elimination, far more competent than and preferable to any of the contenders from the other 31 fascist, communist and prohibitionist parties. This the voters have twice concluded–four times if you count party victories. The Brazil crash also arrived after the US depression spread to Europe.

“Money and clout on the line for teachers union in 2016” […] “The California Teachers Association, one of Sacramento’s most powerful interests, is heading into an extraordinary year with decisions on the ballot, in the Capitol and in the courts, holding the potential to impact its clout for many years to come. Billions of dollars for schools will likely be at stake on the 2016 ballot as well as pivotal campaigns for state Legislature and a question about union pensions. Meanwhile, the Capitol is expecting a robust debate about how schools are evaluated and courts will hear two lawsuits challenging the teachers union.http://www.bakersfield.com/New…..-2016.html

if the people of California are that stupid, then they get the government they deserve. The majority of people in California are either poor or lower middle class. They could easily out vote the rich techie, public employee and Hollywood retards who run the state’s government. If they refuse to do so, then they apparently prefer to have their money stolen and their economic prospects destroyed by such people. What else can you say?

In more than two dozen interviews over the weekend in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Alabama, voters offered some clues as to why Paris has altered the consciousness so dramatically. They described feeling more afraid of the Islamic State, more horrified by the imagery of beheadings and other atrocities. They are uncomforted by Obama’s leadership. And with the pain of the Iraq war still weighing on the nation, they are even listening to the people who say the United States must send troops to the Middle East to fight the Islamic State.

And the public realizes that. No amount of media lying keeps them from noticing that. Worse, the more Obama and his media allies tell preposterous lies like “ISIS is not Islamic” or “terrorism has nothing to do Muslims or Islam” the less the public trusts him when he tries to assure them he has this under control.

I think there is something to that. Obama seems to be mostly interested in defeating his political opponents and changing America into something more to his liking. The rest of the world and America’s security in it is just tangential to that bigger goal. In the case of the refugees, he is going to show how racist and wrong his opponents are and show how much better America can be. If doing that gets a few people killed by letting ISIS terrorists into the country, that is not his worry.

It is funny how the very same people who are totally convinced that people who wave the confederate flag are collectively responsible for the shootings in Charleston or that every law abiding gun owners is responsible for other people using guns to commit murder are equally convinced that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam and it is totally racist to think Islam can be connected to terrorism.

What’s wrong with sending their own military after the mohammedans? How many mohammedan terrorist casualties were there in These States before the 1991 Desert Storm shindig? Weren’t the French unwelcome in Vietnam and Algeria for quite some time?

And any future attacks in either country are just blowback for them having the nerve to actually fight back against ISIS. Didn’t they get the message that the way to deal with these sorts of things is to apologize to ISIS and ask them what the UK or France can do to make up for their previous sins? Don’t these people read Reason?

And beyond that, isn’t this a mistake? Won’t these strikes just produce more terrorism? The UK and France are going to bomb ISIS and that is just going to create more terrorist and more attacks. Ed was on here the day after the Paris attacks saying the worst thing the French could do is go to war over this.

The doctrine of blowback pretty much dictates that these attacks are just going to make ISIS stronger and create more terrorism. Right? If it doesn’t, the what the hell does blow back mean?

It’s a waste of time. It’s like trying to explain basic economics to a leftard. They don’t want to understand, and even if you get them to nod their head and repeat it back to you, they’ll be spouting the same leftist bullshit the next day. Sorry, John, but it’s just not worth it.

I think I understand it pretty well. The problem is that even if it is true, we can’t undo the past. So what difference does it make if this or that attack is the result of some past aggression? We can’t undo that aggression. So, unless you think apologizing for it will solve things, it doesn’t matter. We are still left with an enemy that is trying to kill us. Their reasons for doing that are really immaterial.

How are they doing at that? At killing Americans in America. I don’t know about you, but I figure the odds of my getting killed by a member of ISIS are roughly equal to my odds of winning the lottery without a ticket.

Sarcasmic, of any individual person dying from any type of danger is pretty low. That, however, doesn’t mean the government doesn’t have a responsibility to stop some dangers. Suppose the North Koreans managed to lob a missile at Alaska every couple of months. The chances of any American being killed by such a thing, assuming it wasn’t nuclear, would be minuscule. By your logic, the government would be obliged to just ignore it or maybe shoot down the missile where it could but do nothing else, lets we make the North Koreans really angry.

I don’t care what my chances of being killed by ISIS are. I care about the right of Americans to live their lives without being in fear of ISIS attacking them and the right of any American not to be murdered by some foreign power. And in fact, I pay taxes in no small part because I want a government who can to the greatest extent possible prevent that from happening not just say “sure they are going to attack us but what are the chances any individual American gets killed?”

I consider ISIS to be different from regular terrorism. They are taking territory and forming a state. They are the government in that territory. That is something you can do war with. But against a concept? No. Doesn’t work.

Which ticker symbols should I watch for drone, bomb and rocket manufacturer outcomes? If the military-industrial complex Ike (but not Nixon) warned against is benefiting hugely, wouldn’t share values reflect that? I thought blowback had something to do with poking hornets’ nests…

Syria and Iran have been in Russia’s sphere of influence since early in the Cold War. Yeah, Putin has repeatedly outmaneuvered and made a fool of Obama in Syria–and continues to do so.

But the idea that we could and should incur on Russia’s turf came with the end of the Cold War, when so much of what had been the Eastern Bloc became turned to the West. That momentum carried over through the First Gulf War and dovetailed nicely with Bush the Lesser’s pro-Democracy reverse domino theory.

Putin made Obama look foolish over Assad’s WMD, Obama’s “red line”, by contributing anti-aircraft batteries that could only be used against the U.S. or our allies, etc. But are we really worse off if Russia takes the responsibility for stabilizing Syria? We weren’t willing to do what was necessary to remove Assad anyway–and for good reasons.

I wanted to see Assad fall because of the pressure it would have put on a nuclear Iran–I’d love to see what happened in Tunisia happen to Assad. But if that isn’t in the cards, isn’t it better if Putin and Iran take the lead in stabilizing Syria? One of the main reasons I opposed the Iraq War was because it helped Iran. I opposed Obama capitulating to Iran on the NPT. Obama has traded all our leverage against Iran for magic beans–and I opposed that every step of the way…

But now that he’s done that, maybe letting Putin and Iran sort Syria out isn’t the worst thing that could happen from an American security standpoint.

Well, atheists frequently stand up for free speech rights, if not for any other reason than in order to demonstrate how ludicrous and immoral theism is, you have to actually talk about it and expose it.

It is. But it means well and that makes it okay. I wonder if this is why so many lefties seem to have such a soft spot for radical Islam. The radicals are just trying to create a more just world. So what if they go a little overboard sometimes? If they do, it is most likely just a reaction to some evil capitalist or imperialist oppression of them anyway.

I wonder if this is why so many lefties seem to have such a soft spot for radical Islam.

Sure. It’s also why so many lefties have a soft spot for Christianity. After all, Christianity, Islam, and socialism really all just say they want justice for the downtrodden, government-sanctioned sexual intercourse, and less materialism.

They only have a soft spot for some forms of Christianity and in some circumstances. Leftism is for a lot of people mostly a positional good. It is a way to feel superior to other Americans. So most of the other side is Christian, having a soft spot for Christianity, reduces the positional value of being a leftist.

So they only have a soft spot for Christian ideals. They are always happy to talk up the ideals as a way of feeling superior to their hypocritical opponents. Actual Christians and Christianity, they don’t have much use for.

No they don’t. Christianity says nothing about using government to force people to pay for “charity” programs that they neither want nor support. And leftists only trot out their supposed support for Christian ideals when they defend these types of programs. So they really don’t support those ideals in the slightest. It’s just another one of their dishonest arguments.

But policy-wise, altruism for Jesus and altruism for The Political State both send men with guns out to take stuff by force, ostensibly to hand over to bureaucracies that pay themselves to see about redistributing whatever’s left over. So how am I to distinguish between the one side and the other side?

I think it’s simply a calculation of “who’s up vs. who’s down” and western liberals think that Muslims as rule are oppressed and/or victims. You saw this with Garry Trudeau’s punching down comments. throw in some hate of weternern imperialism or some nonsense and they strip Islamists of their agency and say “we made you this way”

I was being a smart ass. Yes, that is exactly what it is. The more I see the more I am convinced that the entire point in life for most Progressives is to feel superior to other Americans. Progressivism is for most of its followers a positional good. Picking on Islam does nothing to differentiate Progs from non Prog Americans. In fact, it makes them more similar since most non Prog Americans think Islam is a problem.

I was in Charlottesville, Virginia and saw several Muslims celebrating it. How typical they were I have no idea. Certainly, at least some or maybe most of the “Muslims celebrating 9-11” stories are urban myths. It did however happen. Indeed, Muslims in Europe and Palistine were very public in their celebration. It is difficult to believe at least some of them in America didn’t do the same.

Hell, some non Muslim Americans celebrated 9-11. I remember some lefty college professor making the news for blogging about how awesome it was that they hit the Pentagon.

Not sure. They were at the Barracks Road shopping center. Were young, in their 20s and making quite a display of how awesome they thought the whole thing was. They were the right age to be students but I couldn’t tell you for sure if they were. All I can say is they looked middle eastern and claimed to be Muslims and very happy about things.

I recall seeing many 9/11 celebrations reported in media outside the US, in particular a sand castle of the WTC with an airplane stuck in it surrounded by gap-toothed grins. I also recall being at a military convention when Desert Storm intervened on the other side of the planet to “save” Kuwait. Two years later bombs went off in the WTC. What’s Kuwait done for “us” lately?

I just got paid $6784 working off my laptop this month. And if you think that’s cool, my divorced friend has twin toddlers and made over $9k her first month. It feels so good making so much money when other people have to work for so much less. This is what I do,

Leaving Greece? Didn’t they elect a socially-conscious altruist to make the place into a paradise with free stuff for everyone? What’s the deal? Next thing ya know there’ll be migration outta Syria! There’s no pleasing some folks…